The Missouri Democratic Party (MDP) will hold a Tuesday afternoon Springfield news conference, outside the Historic City Hall. MDP Chairman Stephen Webber will brief reporters at 1:30, and Webber will be joined by State Reps. Crystal Quade, D-Springfield, Greg Razer, D-Kansas City, Peter Merideth, D-St. Louis, and others.

“If Donald Trump wants to come to town (Springfield), we’re going to send a loud and clear message that he needs to stop trying to take healthcare away from Missourians,” Webber says in a press advisory.

Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Stephen Webber

President Trump tweeted Sunday that Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) opposes “big tax cuts”, and he predicts Republicans will unseat her in 2018.

Smith, who represents 30 counties in southern Missouri, says he agrees with former Democratic President John F. Kennedy, who said that the “soundest” way to raise tax revenues was to cut taxes.

“We have to increase our GDP (gross domestic product) and the best way to do it is to make sure people have more of their hard-earned dollars, that they can choose to spend the way that they wish to do,” Smith says.

Congressman Smith was a delegate at the 2016 GOP National Convention in Cleveland.

Missourinet Springfield television partner KOLR-10 reports Air Force One is now scheduled to land at the Springfield-Branson National Airport Wednesday afternoon at 12:55. The Loren Cook event is now scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m.